Digital platforms could help reduce critical medical errors
Greater adoption of digital platforms and strengthening the digital healthcare ecosystem will significantly reduce medical and drug errors in both the private and public healthcare sectors, leading to improved patient outcomes and lower healthcare costs. Dr Yaseen...
Scinapse App provides in-race medical care
Digital innovation in healthcare is changing the patient journey for the better, sometimes in rather surprising ways. While there are many tech projects underway to reshape services at clinics and hospitals for greater efficiencies, as well as easier access to care...
Quro Medical joins forces with Operation Healing Hands
Digital healthcare company, Quro Medical, has partnered with the charity initiative called Operation Healing Hands, in an effort to give back to the community and be a helpful establishment for the greater good of South Africans and the local and African medical...
Putting sustainability at the core of healthcare in Africa
The healthcare buildings we are designing and building today are very different from the hospitals, clinics and general practitioner (GP) surgeries we had become accustomed to for such services in Africa. Technological innovation, changing population demographics,...
How to become a data-driven healthcare organisation
Ensuring the data is available, accessible, and secure remains the core principle of today's digital world. Lindokuhle Buthelezi, Tibco Consultant at TechSoft International Regardless of the industry sector, size, or geographic location of an organisation, data...
Satellite connectivity improves patient outcomes
The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted weaknesses in healthcare provision infrastructure in many countries, including South Africa. During the last two years, ease of access to healthcare became a vital determinant of people’s experiences of the virus, and their chances of...
Healthcare sector must prioritise modern data protection
The pandemic has put a significant strain on all industry sectors none more so than in healthcare where there was a need to adopt more data-driven planning and decision-making at lightning speed. By Chris Norton, regional director: Africa at Veeam Software At a time...
Epione Health Villages, Vimbo Health offer digital therapeutics
Two local healthcare start-ups, Epione Health Villages and Vimbo Health, have announced a partnership to promote mental health therapy and offer affordable, tech-enabled help to Epione Health Villages patients. The partnership is a proactive approach to combating the...
Consumers pay 50% less for hospital-level care
Quro Medical's hospital-at-home solution cuts hospital-level care costs for consumers by up to half compared to regular hospital admission costs. The cost of living coupled with rising medical care expenses over the past couple of years is simply becoming unaffordable...
SA fintech wins inaugural Viva AfricaTech award
As most South African businesses reboot following two years of the pandemic, the African fintech sector was one of the big stories of 2021, with the amount of funding for African fintech increasing to $2-billion compared to $500-million in 2020. This was reiterated...
The data doctor is in the house
A recent news report highlighted South Africa's looming health crises due to the growing prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, asthma, and mental health conditions. This has highlighted the need for stakeholders...
Root helps Andela to deliver healthcare cover to SA technologists
Root, a Cape Town-based startup building infrastructure for the digital insurance economy, is partnering with Andela, the global network for remote technologists, and financial services company Momentum Health Solutions to offer healthcare options to Andela’s talent...